From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB497768BACA442F2D4FAE13DF967C9@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGQElesvufaRx4FN@protected.localdomain> (Jean Louis's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:11:49 +0300")
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 03:41]:
>>
>> I sometimes touch the touchpad accidentally, with a palm and caouse
>> cursor to jump around or trigger a pop-up. How can I tell Emacs to
>> ignore all touchpad events? I guess they are registering as mouse
>> events? I don't use mouse much in Emacs, barely at all, so I oculd live
>> without mouse completely.
>>
>> Or can I turn it off per process in the os (windows)? I can't turn the
>> touchpad of in the system entirely, it is my wife's and I am just
>> borrowing it sometimes :).
>
> Some solutions are shown here:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/886092/how-do-i-disable-the-touchpad-while-typing
>
> First tell what operating system do you use, and if you use X.org or
> what? As solutions vary depending of the environment.
Forgott to say: if I got it to work via Emacs, it would be OS independent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-31 0:40 Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 5:11 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 5:22 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 5:23 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-03-31 5:40 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 6:05 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 6:25 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 6:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 10:33 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:36 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 12:34 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 8:32 ` Yuri Khan
2021-03-31 10:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:34 ` Jean Louis
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